#white-christmas — Public Fediverse posts

“Adaptation and mitigation are two sides of the same coin. If mitigation is about preventing the unmanageable, adaptation is about managing the unavoidable.”*…

Adapting to climate change is quickly becoming part of everyday life. Nabig Chaudhry outlines seven trends we’re seeing for 2026 and beyond…

Within the climate and scientific communities, there’s growing concern about how quickly the world is approaching (and may exceed) 2°C of warming. 2024 was the first calendar year in which global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The impacts of rapid warming are becoming harder to miss: The climate is changing quickly almost everywhere, local and global climate risks are growing, progress on mitigation has become more politically constrained and uncertain, and many of our systems and policies aren’t prepared for the conditions ahead. 

Growing climate risk is increasing the demand for new technologies, tools, strategies, and ways of thinking about climate adaptation. Since publishing our Insights on Climate Adaptation in 2025 report, the practice of climate adaptation has continued to develop, as more people, communities, organizations, and institutions work to understand and respond to climate risks.

People use different language to describe climate adaptation (including climate resilience), but the work centers on helping people, communities, and organizations manage the risks of a changing climate. Those activities are expanding, and we can already see signs. For example, new funding and investment vehicles are emerging, such as Tailwind Futures, and adaptation is receiving more dedicated space at major climate convenings, including The Adaptation Forum, a co-hosted gathering of thought leaders in the adaptation space during Climate Week NYC 2025.

In my role as Director of Climate Adaptation Research at Probable Futures and through my PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley, I speak with experts, read emerging research, and study adaptation developments every day. Through these conversations and insights, I’ve reflected on which adaptation trends are likely to emerge and strengthen…

Chaudhry npacks seven different trends; here, let me highlight two. The first is one that (Roughly) Daily has visited before, insurance…

Elevating insurance as a force in adaptation planning, policy, and behavior

Insurance is a valuable adaptation tool, as it can transfer risk, support recovery after climate shocks, and help signal where danger is increasing through premiums, deductibles, coverage limits, or insurer retreat. It can also shape incentives, because the way risk is priced can influence whether and how people and institutions reduce exposure, strengthen buildings, or avoid certain kinds of development.

As climate risks grow, damage to property and homes becomes more frequent and severe. Property owners are experiencing those shocks both physically (flooding, fire, wind damage, etc.) and financially as insurance markets adjust and recalibrate in response to changing probabilities and severities. Insurance markets have begun reflecting climate risk, and those changes are starting to influence where and how people build homes and infrastructure, where they invest in property, and where they choose to live.

A useful example of how insurance is beginning to influence adaptation efforts in the public sphere is Strengthen Alabama Homes, a program of the Alabama Department of Insurance. The program provides grants to help homeowners retrofit their homes and roofs to reduce wind damage from extreme winds and storms. Homeowners who participate can receive discounts on the wind portion of their homeowner’s insurance premium, which makes insurance not only a tool for recovery but also a tool for encouraging adaptation before exposure occurs.

Insurance pricing is one way climate risk is made visible, priced, and acted on through adaptation. I expect that insurance will increasingly influence adaptation planning, policy, and behavior, not only by helping people recover after climate shocks, but by shaping the choices people make before those shocks occur. The development of the insurance industry will therefore be an important factor in adaptation. If insurers become a source not only of risk pricing but also of risk information, adaptation guidance, and incentives to reduce risk, they could help more people act before losses occur. But that would require a meaningful shift in the role of insurance companies, from mainly pricing and transferring risk to also helping people reduce it…

The second goes to the contentious topic of geoengineering…

Expanding debate around the role of climate intervention

As warming continues, risks keep growing. We have more, clearer, worrisome signals that irreversible change, tipping points, and local climate changes so severe that adaptation is impractical if not impossible, are not far off. In response, people and institutions are starting new conversations about global-scale responses. One of those responses is climate intervention, sometimes called geoengineering.

Climate intervention generally refers to intentional efforts to alter Earth’s systems in order to counteract some of the effects of climate change. It can include approaches that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as approaches that reflect a portion of sunlight back into space, such as stratospheric aerosol injection.

Its relationship to adaptation is uneasy, but important. If climate intervention is, at its core, an effort to manage the otherwise unmanageable risks of global climate change, then is it another tool for adapting to climate change, or is it something fundamentally different? There is no consensus, and there may never be, not least because global action will cause uneven responses locally. We don’t know much about the potential impacts of some climate interventions, how they could affect different regions unequally, or what long-term consequences they may have for Earth’s climate and natural systems. 

There are good reasons to have informed conversations and do fundamental research on intervention. People with adaptation expertise can help explore, illuminate, and explain what climate intervention could mean for society and nature. There are also likely to be benefits for adaptation professionals to participate in these conversations and research projects. Even if climate intervention is never widely deployed, the debate itself may shape adaptation thinking, climate policy, research funding, public trust, and international governance.

Climate change requires people to consider risks and options, whether for mitigation, adaptation, or intervention.  Treating strategies for managing the rate, pace, and impacts of climate change as distinct and separate is unlikely to lead to good outcomes. I am hopeful that there will be more collaboration across these new fields as society faces new challenges that have a common root cause. This may include more discussion about how these technologies should be governed, whether they should receive more investment, and whether climate intervention is a possible third leg alongside mitigation and adaptation…

Eminently worth reading in full: “The near-term future of climate adaptation: emerging trends.”

* U. N. Environmental Program

###

As we prepare, we might recall (wistfully) that it was on this date in 1942 that Bing Crosby, with the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers, recorded Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas.” According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this version is the best-selling single of all time with an excess of 50 million copies sold worldwide. (In fact, the version most often heard today is not the original. After frequent use, the master had become damaged, so on March 18, 1947, Crosby re-recorded the holiday hit.)

source

“Adaptation and mitigation are two sides of the same coin. If mitigation is about preventing the unmanageable, adaptation is about managing the unavoidable.”*…

Adapting to climate change is quickly becoming part of everyday life. Nabig Chaudhry outlines seven trends we’re seeing for 2026 and beyond…

Within the climate and scientific communities, there’s growing concern about how quickly the world is approaching (and may exceed) 2°C of warming. 2024 was the first calendar year in which global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The impacts of rapid warming are becoming harder to miss: The climate is changing quickly almost everywhere, local and global climate risks are growing, progress on mitigation has become more politically constrained and uncertain, and many of our systems and policies aren’t prepared for the conditions ahead. 

Growing climate risk is increasing the demand for new technologies, tools, strategies, and ways of thinking about climate adaptation. Since publishing our Insights on Climate Adaptation in 2025 report, the practice of climate adaptation has continued to develop, as more people, communities, organizations, and institutions work to understand and respond to climate risks.

People use different language to describe climate adaptation (including climate resilience), but the work centers on helping people, communities, and organizations manage the risks of a changing climate. Those activities are expanding, and we can already see signs. For example, new funding and investment vehicles are emerging, such as Tailwind Futures, and adaptation is receiving more dedicated space at major climate convenings, including The Adaptation Forum, a co-hosted gathering of thought leaders in the adaptation space during Climate Week NYC 2025.

In my role as Director of Climate Adaptation Research at Probable Futures and through my PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley, I speak with experts, read emerging research, and study adaptation developments every day. Through these conversations and insights, I’ve reflected on which adaptation trends are likely to emerge and strengthen…

Chaudhry npacks seven different trends; here, let me highlight two. The first is one that (Roughly) Daily has visited before, insurance…

Elevating insurance as a force in adaptation planning, policy, and behavior

Insurance is a valuable adaptation tool, as it can transfer risk, support recovery after climate shocks, and help signal where danger is increasing through premiums, deductibles, coverage limits, or insurer retreat. It can also shape incentives, because the way risk is priced can influence whether and how people and institutions reduce exposure, strengthen buildings, or avoid certain kinds of development.

As climate risks grow, damage to property and homes becomes more frequent and severe. Property owners are experiencing those shocks both physically (flooding, fire, wind damage, etc.) and financially as insurance markets adjust and recalibrate in response to changing probabilities and severities. Insurance markets have begun reflecting climate risk, and those changes are starting to influence where and how people build homes and infrastructure, where they invest in property, and where they choose to live.

A useful example of how insurance is beginning to influence adaptation efforts in the public sphere is Strengthen Alabama Homes, a program of the Alabama Department of Insurance. The program provides grants to help homeowners retrofit their homes and roofs to reduce wind damage from extreme winds and storms. Homeowners who participate can receive discounts on the wind portion of their homeowner’s insurance premium, which makes insurance not only a tool for recovery but also a tool for encouraging adaptation before exposure occurs.

Insurance pricing is one way climate risk is made visible, priced, and acted on through adaptation. I expect that insurance will increasingly influence adaptation planning, policy, and behavior, not only by helping people recover after climate shocks, but by shaping the choices people make before those shocks occur. The development of the insurance industry will therefore be an important factor in adaptation. If insurers become a source not only of risk pricing but also of risk information, adaptation guidance, and incentives to reduce risk, they could help more people act before losses occur. But that would require a meaningful shift in the role of insurance companies, from mainly pricing and transferring risk to also helping people reduce it…

The second goes to the contentious topic of geoengineering…

Expanding debate around the role of climate intervention

As warming continues, risks keep growing. We have more, clearer, worrisome signals that irreversible change, tipping points, and local climate changes so severe that adaptation is impractical if not impossible, are not far off. In response, people and institutions are starting new conversations about global-scale responses. One of those responses is climate intervention, sometimes called geoengineering.

Climate intervention generally refers to intentional efforts to alter Earth’s systems in order to counteract some of the effects of climate change. It can include approaches that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as approaches that reflect a portion of sunlight back into space, such as stratospheric aerosol injection.

Its relationship to adaptation is uneasy, but important. If climate intervention is, at its core, an effort to manage the otherwise unmanageable risks of global climate change, then is it another tool for adapting to climate change, or is it something fundamentally different? There is no consensus, and there may never be, not least because global action will cause uneven responses locally. We don’t know much about the potential impacts of some climate interventions, how they could affect different regions unequally, or what long-term consequences they may have for Earth’s climate and natural systems. 

There are good reasons to have informed conversations and do fundamental research on intervention. People with adaptation expertise can help explore, illuminate, and explain what climate intervention could mean for society and nature. There are also likely to be benefits for adaptation professionals to participate in these conversations and research projects. Even if climate intervention is never widely deployed, the debate itself may shape adaptation thinking, climate policy, research funding, public trust, and international governance.

Climate change requires people to consider risks and options, whether for mitigation, adaptation, or intervention.  Treating strategies for managing the rate, pace, and impacts of climate change as distinct and separate is unlikely to lead to good outcomes. I am hopeful that there will be more collaboration across these new fields as society faces new challenges that have a common root cause. This may include more discussion about how these technologies should be governed, whether they should receive more investment, and whether climate intervention is a possible third leg alongside mitigation and adaptation…

Eminently worth reading in full: “The near-term future of climate adaptation: emerging trends.”

* U. N. Environmental Program

###

As we prepare, we might recall (wistfully) that it was on this date in 1942 that Bing Crosby, with the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers, recorded Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas.” According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this version is the best-selling single of all time with an excess of 50 million copies sold worldwide. (In fact, the version most often heard today is not the original. After frequent use, the master had become damaged, so on March 18, 1947, Crosby re-recorded the holiday hit.)

source

“Adaptation and mitigation are two sides of the same coin. If mitigation is about preventing the unmanageable, adaptation is about managing the unavoidable.”*…

Adapting to climate change is quickly becoming part of everyday life. Nabig Chaudhry outlines seven trends we’re seeing for 2026 and beyond…

Within the climate and scientific communities, there’s growing concern about how quickly the world is approaching (and may exceed) 2°C of warming. 2024 was the first calendar year in which global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The impacts of rapid warming are becoming harder to miss: The climate is changing quickly almost everywhere, local and global climate risks are growing, progress on mitigation has become more politically constrained and uncertain, and many of our systems and policies aren’t prepared for the conditions ahead. 

Growing climate risk is increasing the demand for new technologies, tools, strategies, and ways of thinking about climate adaptation. Since publishing our Insights on Climate Adaptation in 2025 report, the practice of climate adaptation has continued to develop, as more people, communities, organizations, and institutions work to understand and respond to climate risks.

People use different language to describe climate adaptation (including climate resilience), but the work centers on helping people, communities, and organizations manage the risks of a changing climate. Those activities are expanding, and we can already see signs. For example, new funding and investment vehicles are emerging, such as Tailwind Futures, and adaptation is receiving more dedicated space at major climate convenings, including The Adaptation Forum, a co-hosted gathering of thought leaders in the adaptation space during Climate Week NYC 2025.

In my role as Director of Climate Adaptation Research at Probable Futures and through my PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley, I speak with experts, read emerging research, and study adaptation developments every day. Through these conversations and insights, I’ve reflected on which adaptation trends are likely to emerge and strengthen…

Chaudhry npacks seven different trends; here, let me highlight two. The first is one that (Roughly) Daily has visited before, insurance…

Elevating insurance as a force in adaptation planning, policy, and behavior

Insurance is a valuable adaptation tool, as it can transfer risk, support recovery after climate shocks, and help signal where danger is increasing through premiums, deductibles, coverage limits, or insurer retreat. It can also shape incentives, because the way risk is priced can influence whether and how people and institutions reduce exposure, strengthen buildings, or avoid certain kinds of development.

As climate risks grow, damage to property and homes becomes more frequent and severe. Property owners are experiencing those shocks both physically (flooding, fire, wind damage, etc.) and financially as insurance markets adjust and recalibrate in response to changing probabilities and severities. Insurance markets have begun reflecting climate risk, and those changes are starting to influence where and how people build homes and infrastructure, where they invest in property, and where they choose to live.

A useful example of how insurance is beginning to influence adaptation efforts in the public sphere is Strengthen Alabama Homes, a program of the Alabama Department of Insurance. The program provides grants to help homeowners retrofit their homes and roofs to reduce wind damage from extreme winds and storms. Homeowners who participate can receive discounts on the wind portion of their homeowner’s insurance premium, which makes insurance not only a tool for recovery but also a tool for encouraging adaptation before exposure occurs.

Insurance pricing is one way climate risk is made visible, priced, and acted on through adaptation. I expect that insurance will increasingly influence adaptation planning, policy, and behavior, not only by helping people recover after climate shocks, but by shaping the choices people make before those shocks occur. The development of the insurance industry will therefore be an important factor in adaptation. If insurers become a source not only of risk pricing but also of risk information, adaptation guidance, and incentives to reduce risk, they could help more people act before losses occur. But that would require a meaningful shift in the role of insurance companies, from mainly pricing and transferring risk to also helping people reduce it…

The second goes to the contentious topic of geoengineering…

Expanding debate around the role of climate intervention

As warming continues, risks keep growing. We have more, clearer, worrisome signals that irreversible change, tipping points, and local climate changes so severe that adaptation is impractical if not impossible, are not far off. In response, people and institutions are starting new conversations about global-scale responses. One of those responses is climate intervention, sometimes called geoengineering.

Climate intervention generally refers to intentional efforts to alter Earth’s systems in order to counteract some of the effects of climate change. It can include approaches that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as approaches that reflect a portion of sunlight back into space, such as stratospheric aerosol injection.

Its relationship to adaptation is uneasy, but important. If climate intervention is, at its core, an effort to manage the otherwise unmanageable risks of global climate change, then is it another tool for adapting to climate change, or is it something fundamentally different? There is no consensus, and there may never be, not least because global action will cause uneven responses locally. We don’t know much about the potential impacts of some climate interventions, how they could affect different regions unequally, or what long-term consequences they may have for Earth’s climate and natural systems. 

There are good reasons to have informed conversations and do fundamental research on intervention. People with adaptation expertise can help explore, illuminate, and explain what climate intervention could mean for society and nature. There are also likely to be benefits for adaptation professionals to participate in these conversations and research projects. Even if climate intervention is never widely deployed, the debate itself may shape adaptation thinking, climate policy, research funding, public trust, and international governance.

Climate change requires people to consider risks and options, whether for mitigation, adaptation, or intervention.  Treating strategies for managing the rate, pace, and impacts of climate change as distinct and separate is unlikely to lead to good outcomes. I am hopeful that there will be more collaboration across these new fields as society faces new challenges that have a common root cause. This may include more discussion about how these technologies should be governed, whether they should receive more investment, and whether climate intervention is a possible third leg alongside mitigation and adaptation…

Eminently worth reading in full: “The near-term future of climate adaptation: emerging trends.”

* U. N. Environmental Program

###

As we prepare, we might recall (wistfully) that it was on this date in 1942 that Bing Crosby, with the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers, recorded Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas.” According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this version is the best-selling single of all time with an excess of 50 million copies sold worldwide. (In fact, the version most often heard today is not the original. After frequent use, the master had become damaged, so on March 18, 1947, Crosby re-recorded the holiday hit.)

source

“Adaptation and mitigation are two sides of the same coin. If mitigation is about preventing the unmanageable, adaptation is about managing the unavoidable.”*…

Adapting to climate change is quickly becoming part of everyday life. Nabig Chaudhry outlines seven trends we’re seeing for 2026 and beyond…

Within the climate and scientific communities, there’s growing concern about how quickly the world is approaching (and may exceed) 2°C of warming. 2024 was the first calendar year in which global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The impacts of rapid warming are becoming harder to miss: The climate is changing quickly almost everywhere, local and global climate risks are growing, progress on mitigation has become more politically constrained and uncertain, and many of our systems and policies aren’t prepared for the conditions ahead. 

Growing climate risk is increasing the demand for new technologies, tools, strategies, and ways of thinking about climate adaptation. Since publishing our Insights on Climate Adaptation in 2025 report, the practice of climate adaptation has continued to develop, as more people, communities, organizations, and institutions work to understand and respond to climate risks.

People use different language to describe climate adaptation (including climate resilience), but the work centers on helping people, communities, and organizations manage the risks of a changing climate. Those activities are expanding, and we can already see signs. For example, new funding and investment vehicles are emerging, such as Tailwind Futures, and adaptation is receiving more dedicated space at major climate convenings, including The Adaptation Forum, a co-hosted gathering of thought leaders in the adaptation space during Climate Week NYC 2025.

In my role as Director of Climate Adaptation Research at Probable Futures and through my PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley, I speak with experts, read emerging research, and study adaptation developments every day. Through these conversations and insights, I’ve reflected on which adaptation trends are likely to emerge and strengthen…

Chaudhry npacks seven different trends; here, let me highlight two. The first is one that (Roughly) Daily has visited before, insurance…

Elevating insurance as a force in adaptation planning, policy, and behavior

Insurance is a valuable adaptation tool, as it can transfer risk, support recovery after climate shocks, and help signal where danger is increasing through premiums, deductibles, coverage limits, or insurer retreat. It can also shape incentives, because the way risk is priced can influence whether and how people and institutions reduce exposure, strengthen buildings, or avoid certain kinds of development.

As climate risks grow, damage to property and homes becomes more frequent and severe. Property owners are experiencing those shocks both physically (flooding, fire, wind damage, etc.) and financially as insurance markets adjust and recalibrate in response to changing probabilities and severities. Insurance markets have begun reflecting climate risk, and those changes are starting to influence where and how people build homes and infrastructure, where they invest in property, and where they choose to live.

A useful example of how insurance is beginning to influence adaptation efforts in the public sphere is Strengthen Alabama Homes, a program of the Alabama Department of Insurance. The program provides grants to help homeowners retrofit their homes and roofs to reduce wind damage from extreme winds and storms. Homeowners who participate can receive discounts on the wind portion of their homeowner’s insurance premium, which makes insurance not only a tool for recovery but also a tool for encouraging adaptation before exposure occurs.

Insurance pricing is one way climate risk is made visible, priced, and acted on through adaptation. I expect that insurance will increasingly influence adaptation planning, policy, and behavior, not only by helping people recover after climate shocks, but by shaping the choices people make before those shocks occur. The development of the insurance industry will therefore be an important factor in adaptation. If insurers become a source not only of risk pricing but also of risk information, adaptation guidance, and incentives to reduce risk, they could help more people act before losses occur. But that would require a meaningful shift in the role of insurance companies, from mainly pricing and transferring risk to also helping people reduce it…

The second goes to the contentious topic of geoengineering…

Expanding debate around the role of climate intervention

As warming continues, risks keep growing. We have more, clearer, worrisome signals that irreversible change, tipping points, and local climate changes so severe that adaptation is impractical if not impossible, are not far off. In response, people and institutions are starting new conversations about global-scale responses. One of those responses is climate intervention, sometimes called geoengineering.

Climate intervention generally refers to intentional efforts to alter Earth’s systems in order to counteract some of the effects of climate change. It can include approaches that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as approaches that reflect a portion of sunlight back into space, such as stratospheric aerosol injection.

Its relationship to adaptation is uneasy, but important. If climate intervention is, at its core, an effort to manage the otherwise unmanageable risks of global climate change, then is it another tool for adapting to climate change, or is it something fundamentally different? There is no consensus, and there may never be, not least because global action will cause uneven responses locally. We don’t know much about the potential impacts of some climate interventions, how they could affect different regions unequally, or what long-term consequences they may have for Earth’s climate and natural systems. 

There are good reasons to have informed conversations and do fundamental research on intervention. People with adaptation expertise can help explore, illuminate, and explain what climate intervention could mean for society and nature. There are also likely to be benefits for adaptation professionals to participate in these conversations and research projects. Even if climate intervention is never widely deployed, the debate itself may shape adaptation thinking, climate policy, research funding, public trust, and international governance.

Climate change requires people to consider risks and options, whether for mitigation, adaptation, or intervention.  Treating strategies for managing the rate, pace, and impacts of climate change as distinct and separate is unlikely to lead to good outcomes. I am hopeful that there will be more collaboration across these new fields as society faces new challenges that have a common root cause. This may include more discussion about how these technologies should be governed, whether they should receive more investment, and whether climate intervention is a possible third leg alongside mitigation and adaptation…

Eminently worth reading in full: “The near-term future of climate adaptation: emerging trends.”

* U. N. Environmental Program

###

As we prepare, we might recall (wistfully) that it was on this date in 1942 that Bing Crosby, with the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers, recorded Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas.” According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this version is the best-selling single of all time with an excess of 50 million copies sold worldwide. (In fact, the version most often heard today is not the original. After frequent use, the master had become damaged, so on March 18, 1947, Crosby re-recorded the holiday hit.)

source

“Adaptation and mitigation are two sides of the same coin. If mitigation is about preventing the unmanageable, adaptation is about managing the unavoidable.”*…

Adapting to climate change is quickly becoming part of everyday life. Nabig Chaudhry outlines seven trends we’re seeing for 2026 and beyond…

Within the climate and scientific communities, there’s growing concern about how quickly the world is approaching (and may exceed) 2°C of warming. 2024 was the first calendar year in which global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The impacts of rapid warming are becoming harder to miss: The climate is changing quickly almost everywhere, local and global climate risks are growing, progress on mitigation has become more politically constrained and uncertain, and many of our systems and policies aren’t prepared for the conditions ahead. 

Growing climate risk is increasing the demand for new technologies, tools, strategies, and ways of thinking about climate adaptation. Since publishing our Insights on Climate Adaptation in 2025 report, the practice of climate adaptation has continued to develop, as more people, communities, organizations, and institutions work to understand and respond to climate risks.

People use different language to describe climate adaptation (including climate resilience), but the work centers on helping people, communities, and organizations manage the risks of a changing climate. Those activities are expanding, and we can already see signs. For example, new funding and investment vehicles are emerging, such as Tailwind Futures, and adaptation is receiving more dedicated space at major climate convenings, including The Adaptation Forum, a co-hosted gathering of thought leaders in the adaptation space during Climate Week NYC 2025.

In my role as Director of Climate Adaptation Research at Probable Futures and through my PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley, I speak with experts, read emerging research, and study adaptation developments every day. Through these conversations and insights, I’ve reflected on which adaptation trends are likely to emerge and strengthen…

Chaudhry npacks seven different trends; here, let me highlight two. The first is one that (Roughly) Daily has visited before, insurance…

Elevating insurance as a force in adaptation planning, policy, and behavior

Insurance is a valuable adaptation tool, as it can transfer risk, support recovery after climate shocks, and help signal where danger is increasing through premiums, deductibles, coverage limits, or insurer retreat. It can also shape incentives, because the way risk is priced can influence whether and how people and institutions reduce exposure, strengthen buildings, or avoid certain kinds of development.

As climate risks grow, damage to property and homes becomes more frequent and severe. Property owners are experiencing those shocks both physically (flooding, fire, wind damage, etc.) and financially as insurance markets adjust and recalibrate in response to changing probabilities and severities. Insurance markets have begun reflecting climate risk, and those changes are starting to influence where and how people build homes and infrastructure, where they invest in property, and where they choose to live.

A useful example of how insurance is beginning to influence adaptation efforts in the public sphere is Strengthen Alabama Homes, a program of the Alabama Department of Insurance. The program provides grants to help homeowners retrofit their homes and roofs to reduce wind damage from extreme winds and storms. Homeowners who participate can receive discounts on the wind portion of their homeowner’s insurance premium, which makes insurance not only a tool for recovery but also a tool for encouraging adaptation before exposure occurs.

Insurance pricing is one way climate risk is made visible, priced, and acted on through adaptation. I expect that insurance will increasingly influence adaptation planning, policy, and behavior, not only by helping people recover after climate shocks, but by shaping the choices people make before those shocks occur. The development of the insurance industry will therefore be an important factor in adaptation. If insurers become a source not only of risk pricing but also of risk information, adaptation guidance, and incentives to reduce risk, they could help more people act before losses occur. But that would require a meaningful shift in the role of insurance companies, from mainly pricing and transferring risk to also helping people reduce it…

The second goes to the contentious topic of geoengineering…

Expanding debate around the role of climate intervention

As warming continues, risks keep growing. We have more, clearer, worrisome signals that irreversible change, tipping points, and local climate changes so severe that adaptation is impractical if not impossible, are not far off. In response, people and institutions are starting new conversations about global-scale responses. One of those responses is climate intervention, sometimes called geoengineering.

Climate intervention generally refers to intentional efforts to alter Earth’s systems in order to counteract some of the effects of climate change. It can include approaches that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as approaches that reflect a portion of sunlight back into space, such as stratospheric aerosol injection.

Its relationship to adaptation is uneasy, but important. If climate intervention is, at its core, an effort to manage the otherwise unmanageable risks of global climate change, then is it another tool for adapting to climate change, or is it something fundamentally different? There is no consensus, and there may never be, not least because global action will cause uneven responses locally. We don’t know much about the potential impacts of some climate interventions, how they could affect different regions unequally, or what long-term consequences they may have for Earth’s climate and natural systems. 

There are good reasons to have informed conversations and do fundamental research on intervention. People with adaptation expertise can help explore, illuminate, and explain what climate intervention could mean for society and nature. There are also likely to be benefits for adaptation professionals to participate in these conversations and research projects. Even if climate intervention is never widely deployed, the debate itself may shape adaptation thinking, climate policy, research funding, public trust, and international governance.

Climate change requires people to consider risks and options, whether for mitigation, adaptation, or intervention.  Treating strategies for managing the rate, pace, and impacts of climate change as distinct and separate is unlikely to lead to good outcomes. I am hopeful that there will be more collaboration across these new fields as society faces new challenges that have a common root cause. This may include more discussion about how these technologies should be governed, whether they should receive more investment, and whether climate intervention is a possible third leg alongside mitigation and adaptation…

Eminently worth reading in full: “The near-term future of climate adaptation: emerging trends.”

* U. N. Environmental Program

###

As we prepare, we might recall (wistfully) that it was on this date in 1942 that Bing Crosby, with the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers, recorded Irving Berlin’s song, “White Christmas.” According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this version is the best-selling single of all time with an excess of 50 million copies sold worldwide. (In fact, the version most often heard today is not the original. After frequent use, the master had become damaged, so on March 18, 1947, Crosby re-recorded the holiday hit.)

source

29.05.1942: Bing Crosby nimmt "White Christmas" auf

Manchmal fallen einem Dinge zur Unzeit ein. Gut, wenn irgendwann dann doch die Zeit reif dafür ist. So ging es dem Titel "White Christmas".

Eingespielt im Frühling, veröffentlicht im Sommer, wollte die Single erst niemand haben. Richtung Weihnachten aber ging sie weg wie warme Semmeln.
#podcast #WhiteChristmas
☃️🎶
https://pca.st/episode/e4b802fa-5bd7-4025-99e1-c29587cc35c9

29.05.1942: Bing Crosby nimmt "White Christmas" auf

Manchmal fallen einem Dinge zur Unzeit ein. Gut, wenn irgendwann dann doch die Zeit reif dafür ist. So ging es dem Titel "White Christmas".

Eingespielt im Frühling, veröffentlicht im Sommer, wollte die Single erst niemand haben. Richtung Weihnachten aber ging sie weg wie warme Semmeln.
#podcast #WhiteChristmas
☃️🎶
https://pca.st/episode/e4b802fa-5bd7-4025-99e1-c29587cc35c9

29.05.1942: Bing Crosby nimmt "White Christmas" auf

Manchmal fallen einem Dinge zur Unzeit ein. Gut, wenn irgendwann dann doch die Zeit reif dafür ist. So ging es dem Titel "White Christmas".

Eingespielt im Frühling, veröffentlicht im Sommer, wollte die Single erst niemand haben. Richtung Weihnachten aber ging sie weg wie warme Semmeln.
#podcast #WhiteChristmas
☃️🎶
https://pca.st/episode/e4b802fa-5bd7-4025-99e1-c29587cc35c9

🗣️ Malcolm J. Duncan: ”The Long-Awaited King”.✨🎄

⛪️ Kensington Temple,
Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3BY, England, Great Britain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

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#Christmas #Jul #WhiteChristmas #VitJul
#Church #Kyrka #ChurchService #Gudstjänst #WorshipService #WorshipOnline

🗣️ Malcolm J. Duncan: ”The Long-Awaited King”.✨🎄

⛪️ Kensington Temple,
Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3BY, England, Great Britain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

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#Christmas #Jul #WhiteChristmas #VitJul
#Church #Kyrka #ChurchService #Gudstjänst #WorshipService #WorshipOnline

An Australian summer white Christmas! A blast from the south off the Southern Ocean brought summer snowfall to the mountains of #Tasmania. After the clouds cleared the settled snow was captured this morning by #Sentinel2 #whitechristmas

An Australian summer white Christmas! A blast from the south off the Southern Ocean brought summer snowfall to the mountains of #Tasmania. After the clouds cleared the settled snow was captured this morning by #Sentinel2 #whitechristmas

An Australian summer white Christmas! A blast from the south off the Southern Ocean brought summer snowfall to the mountains of #Tasmania. After the clouds cleared the settled snow was captured this morning by #Sentinel2 #whitechristmas

An Australian summer white Christmas! A blast from the south off the Southern Ocean brought summer snowfall to the mountains of #Tasmania. After the clouds cleared the settled snow was captured this morning by #Sentinel2 #whitechristmas

An Australian summer white Christmas! A blast from the south off the Southern Ocean brought summer snowfall to the mountains of #Tasmania. After the clouds cleared the settled snow was captured this morning by #Sentinel2 #whitechristmas

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

#Snowman #Bikini #EyeCandy #HolidayJoy #WhiteChristmas

Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"

#Baywatch #lvdlpx #RandomBaywatch #XMas #Christmas #HolidaySeason #Noel #Yuletide #BaywatchChristmas

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

#Snowman #Bikini #EyeCandy #HolidayJoy #WhiteChristmas

Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"

#Baywatch #lvdlpx #RandomBaywatch #XMas #Christmas #HolidaySeason #Noel #Yuletide #BaywatchChristmas

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

#Snowman #Bikini #EyeCandy #HolidayJoy #WhiteChristmas

Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"

#Baywatch #lvdlpx #RandomBaywatch #XMas #Christmas #HolidaySeason #Noel #Yuletide #BaywatchChristmas

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

#Snowman #Bikini #EyeCandy #HolidayJoy #WhiteChristmas

Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"

#Baywatch #lvdlpx #RandomBaywatch #XMas #Christmas #HolidaySeason #Noel #Yuletide #BaywatchChristmas

Terry Sawchuk Once Bought His Children a White Christmas

Detroit Red Wings legend Terry Sawchuk was known as a brilliant goaltender with a darkness and sadness in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NHL #featured #RedWings #sawchuk #Sports #WhiteChristmas
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Terry Sawchuk Once Bought His Children a White Christmas

Detroit Red Wings legend Terry Sawchuk was known as a brilliant goaltender with a darkness and sadness in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NHL #featured #RedWings #sawchuk #Sports #WhiteChristmas
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/72266/ 100 000 NUTVAT SÕDURIT ⟩ Klassikaks saanud jõululaul «White Christmas» ei räägigi tegelikult jõuludest #1954.AastaKultusfilm #ArdennidePealetung #BingCrosby #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Entertainment #Estonia #Estonian #GuinnessiRekorditeRaamat #HowardCrosby #IrvingBerlin #jõulud #meelelahutus #PearlHarbor #sõdurid #TeineMaailmasõda #Venemaa #WhiteChristmas

We have snow people. #WhiteChristmas

We have snow people. #WhiteChristmas

We have snow people. #WhiteChristmas

We have snow people. #WhiteChristmas

#weißeweihnachten #whitechristmas #weihnachten #christmas #schloss #castle #schnee

A rare instance where I woke up on Christmas and the world was wintry...captured at dawn: "Kiss of Light".

#art #photography #winter #dawn #sunrise #snow #Christmas #WhiteChristmas

A rare instance where I woke up on Christmas and the world was wintry...captured at dawn: "Kiss of Light".

#art #photography #winter #dawn #sunrise #snow #Christmas #WhiteChristmas

A rare instance where I woke up on Christmas and the world was wintry...captured at dawn: "Kiss of Light".

#art #photography #winter #dawn #sunrise #snow #Christmas #WhiteChristmas

A rare instance where I woke up on Christmas and the world was wintry...captured at dawn: "Kiss of Light".

#art #photography #winter #dawn #sunrise #snow #Christmas #WhiteChristmas

A rare instance where I woke up on Christmas and the world was wintry...captured at dawn: "Kiss of Light".

#art #photography #winter #dawn #sunrise #snow #Christmas #WhiteChristmas

We're going to have to just dream of a white Christmas this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Winter #Christmas #WhiteChristmas #Nikon #Woodland #Trees #Snow #SnowStorm

We're going to have to just dream of a white Christmas this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Winter #Christmas #WhiteChristmas #Nikon #Woodland #Trees #Snow #SnowStorm

We're going to have to just dream of a white Christmas this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Winter #Christmas #WhiteChristmas #Nikon #Woodland #Trees #Snow #SnowStorm

We're going to have to just dream of a white Christmas this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Winter #Christmas #WhiteChristmas #Nikon #Woodland #Trees #Snow #SnowStorm

We're going to have to just dream of a white Christmas this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Winter #Christmas #WhiteChristmas #Nikon #Woodland #Trees #Snow #SnowStorm

#WhiteChristmas White Christmas è la canzone natalizia per eccellenza, ha generato milioni di cover ed è il singolo discografico più venduto della storia.Come nasce il grande successo?White Christmas fu scritta da Irving Berlin nel 1940. In quel periodo ...

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🗣️ Malcolm J. Duncan: ”Christmas Eve”.✨🎄

⛪️ Kensington Temple,
Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3BY, England, Great Britain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

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#KTLCC #KensingtonTemple #KTworship #KTnuGen #KTTV
#ChristmasEve #Julafton #WhiteChristmas #VitJul #ChristmasCarols #XmasCarols #Julsånger
#Church #Kyrka #ChurchService #Gudstjänst #WorshipService #WorshipOnline

Against all odds, we did end up getting a White Christmas in Stockholm this year. Maybe 2mm fell yesterday and some nice frost appeared this morning.

Wishing you and your loved ones a nice Holiday season whether or not you celebrate.

#Stockholm #WhiteChristmas #Holidays

Against all odds, we did end up getting a White Christmas in Stockholm this year. Maybe 2mm fell yesterday and some nice frost appeared this morning.

Wishing you and your loved ones a nice Holiday season whether or not you celebrate.

#Stockholm #WhiteChristmas #Holidays

Against all odds, we did end up getting a White Christmas in Stockholm this year. Maybe 2mm fell yesterday and some nice frost appeared this morning.

Wishing you and your loved ones a nice Holiday season whether or not you celebrate.

#Stockholm #WhiteChristmas #Holidays

Against all odds, we did end up getting a White Christmas in Stockholm this year. Maybe 2mm fell yesterday and some nice frost appeared this morning.

Wishing you and your loved ones a nice Holiday season whether or not you celebrate.

#Stockholm #WhiteChristmas #Holidays

Against all odds, we did end up getting a White Christmas in Stockholm this year. Maybe 2mm fell yesterday and some nice frost appeared this morning.

Wishing you and your loved ones a nice Holiday season whether or not you celebrate.

#Stockholm #WhiteChristmas #Holidays

#WhiteChristmas 2025

#WhiteChristmas 2025

#WhiteChristmas 2025

#WhiteChristmas 2025

https://www.europesays.com/lv/84738/ Vispārdotākā Ziemassvētku dziesma pasaulē nav tā, kuru klausāmies visbiežāk — Lente.lv #BingCrosby #Entertainment #Izklaide #Latvia #Latvian #Latviešu #LatviešuValoda #LatviešuValoda #Latvija #LV #MariahCarey #VispārdotākaisSingls #WhiteChristmas #ZiemassvētkuDziesmas

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #WhiteChristmas #Musical #Comedy A Hollywood Icon's Beloved Christmas Classic is a Streaming Hit This Festive Season http://dlvr.it/TPymls

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #WhiteChristmas #Musical #Comedy A Hollywood Icon's Beloved Christmas Classic is a Streaming Hit This Festive Season http://dlvr.it/TPymls

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #WhiteChristmas #Musical #Comedy A Hollywood Icon's Beloved Christmas Classic is a Streaming Hit This Festive Season http://dlvr.it/TPymls

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #WhiteChristmas #Musical #Comedy A Hollywood Icon's Beloved Christmas Classic is a Streaming Hit This Festive Season http://dlvr.it/TPymls

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #WhiteChristmas #Musical #Comedy A Hollywood Icon's Beloved Christmas Classic is a Streaming Hit This Festive Season http://dlvr.it/TPymls

🗣️ Malcolm J. Duncan: ”Big Band Christmas Carol Service”. 🎄🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

⛪️ Kensington Temple,
Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3BY, England, Great Britain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

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#KTLCC #KensingtonTemple #KTworship #KTnuGen #KTTV
#Advent #BlessedAdvent #VälsignadAdvent #WhiteChristmas #VitJul #ChristmasCarols #XmasCarols #Julsånger #BigBand
#Church #Kyrka #ChurchService #Gudstjänst #WorshipService #WorshipOnline

🗣️ Malcolm J. Duncan: ”Big Band #Christmas Carol Service”. 🎄🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

⛪️ Kensington Temple,
Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3BY, England, Great Britain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

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#KTLCC #KensingtonTemple #KTworship #KTnuGen #KTTV #Advent #BlessedAdvent #VälsignadAdvent #WhiteChristmas #VitJul #ChristmasCarols #XmasCarols #Julsånger #BigBand #Church #Kyrka #ChurchService #Gudstjänst #WorshipService #WorshipOnline

#MdRzA Fahrt zum Einkaufen gestern, am Sonnabend vor dem vierten Advent.

Wenn das Wetter an Weihnachten so ist, haben wir auch "weiße Weihnachten".

#WhiteChristmas #Weihnachten #Advent #Fahrrad

It‘s in the 70s here in Houston but that’s no reason to not have a “White Christmas”. Here’s Elton John with a live version of the holiday classic (https://youtu.be/8Y_iVvmBSvQ?si=-QJs-yLtSAPKSHj2) .. He might be talking about a different “White Christmas” though😶
#RetroView #EltonJohn #HappyHolidays #WhiteChristmas

It‘s in the 70s here in Houston but that’s no reason to not have a “White Christmas”. Here’s Elton John with a live version of the holiday classic (https://youtu.be/8Y_iVvmBSvQ?si=-QJs-yLtSAPKSHj2) .. He might be talking about a different “White Christmas” though😶
#RetroView #EltonJohn #HappyHolidays #WhiteChristmas

It‘s in the 70s here in Houston but that’s no reason to not have a “White Christmas”. Here’s Elton John with a live version of the holiday classic (https://youtu.be/8Y_iVvmBSvQ?si=-QJs-yLtSAPKSHj2) .. He might be talking about a different “White Christmas” though😶
#RetroView #EltonJohn #HappyHolidays #WhiteChristmas